You already have a tool. Keep it.

“We already pay for a carrier vetting platform.”

Carrier vetting platforms exist so a broker can onboard a carrier: one direction, US-focused, finished when the packet is complete. Cipher & Row runs the other three. We score the broker on the same 0–100 ladder (active authority, live BMC-84 surety bond status, sanctions screening), and carriers and dispatchers get unlimited broker lookups. The carrier tier is $0 forever, so onboarding costs your carriers nothing. Canadian coverage is published province by province. And every check seals into a record with an independent RFC 3161 timestamp, the standard used for signed contracts and patent filings, which is what holds up in a cargo claim when a screenshot does not.

“How is your data any better than pulling FMCSA myself?”

It is not better FMCSA data. It is the same data plus four things FMCSA cannot tell you. History: a pull shows today’s state, not that an authority was revoked and re-registered under a new MC number, or that the same officer sits on three others. Sources FMCSA does not hold: OFAC, UN and Canadian consolidated sanctions lists on every verification, plus CVOR, CTQ, NSC and CBSA. Monitoring: authority, bond, insurance and safety watched daily, because a bond can lapse between your check and your tender. Evidence: a sealed, independently timestamped record instead of a browser tab.

Don’t switch anything. Run it alongside your current tool for 14 days, no card required, and re-check twenty carriers you already cleared. Test one DOT first with no signup, or start the trial.